60 Botanic Gardens. 



GROUNDS ABOUT CHURCHES, ETC. 



Grounds about some churches and graveyards, 

 where intramural burial has ceased, have been neatly 

 planted ; and even cemeteries, by judicious planting, 

 are made to contribute to a serious cheerfulness, not 

 unbecoming to persons visiting places of Christian 

 sepulture. As I visit such scenes, I think we do in- 

 justice to the spirit and genius of Christianity by 

 planting about mere mortal remains of departed 

 spirits only such trees as Napoleon's willow, or 

 gloomy kinds of cypress : 



" Dark tree, still sad when others' grief has fled, 

 The only constant mourner o'er the dead ; " 



or even the handsome Huon Pine (Dacrydium Frank- 

 linii}. The devoted women who followed their 

 adored Master to Calvary and the tomb, on return- 

 ing to that first place of Christian burial, to weep 

 over Him whom they little expected to see so soon 

 again, received the glad tidings which have sus- 

 tained, encouraged, and even cheered in all trials 

 nearly nineteen centuries of His followers. 



BOTANIC GARDENS. 



A standard cyclopaedia describes Botanic Gardens 

 as establishments wherein plants from all climates 

 and all parts of the world are cultivated, to impart in- 

 formation and improve science, partly for pleasure, 

 partly for luxury. To Theophrastus, who wrote a 



